Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-07-23
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A hospital for enlmnls will soon be
erected in London, and at the same time
free dispensaries will be opened, where
the horses, donkeys, cats, dogs aud Dirds
of the poor Gun be treated when Ill.
Tho Swedes of Chicago are going to
erect, In Lincoln park, u $4,000 monu-
ment to Linnmus, the famous hotanist.
The monument will be the finest in Chi
cago. and is to be fac silnilc OF the LIN
n;eus statue ut Stockholm.
The Mercantile library of New York
city WIS founded and is entirely MANAGED
by clerks. Any one, by paying the :ee'
may become Il member; but to hold o1llce,
or even TO vote, one must he a clerk or
working OH salary III some mercantile
business.
A New York firm will manufacture
watches which cannot be spoiled, as COLL
mon watches ure, by being lnaSnotlzcd
when brought near electric wires or dyna-
mos They will have palladium hair
spring uud Il non-nlagIletic compensation
balance.
A Tennessee mountaineer recently
found, under Il ledge OF rocks, the sword
OF a Confederate officer. 1t proves To have
belonged to captain who was killed III a
skirInish, and one of his command ND II
that it might not fall into the hands of the
Union forces.
The burning of the Paterson iron works
is attributed to the English sparrow. The
slarrows have been noticed carrying straw
and other intianmable stuff and building
their nests among the girders, and 1t Is
believed that the sparks lodging Ii these
nests caused the fire.
A scheme is on foot TO establish a home
for Scandinavian emigr1ntS in Boston.
This is not to take the form OF charity
but to encourage the Scandinav1ans 10 es-
tablish themselves in this country. IT is
estimated that $50, 600 will be needed for
ii building, and Il nucleus OF $i,UJO Oh
$4,000 is already available.
A remarkable drinking contest took
place in saloon i'll Carson, New. re-
Gently; remarkable because the liquid
was water. The wager was $50, and the
man who won it drank eleven large
glasses of cold water, and YVES zone the
worse for it, The other fellow drank nine
glasses and became i'll.
Something new in contests over wills
is reported from u jersey court. The tes-
tator bcqueathcd I'LL his property TO the
prospective children Of his son, who is q
youth of Is, and who, finding himself
without means, has undertaken to brt'';
Che will Oh the ground that his father was
not entirely OF sound mind.
a Frenchman recently rode into Water
vile, Me-. driving big Newfoundland
dog hitched to small two wheeled cart,
which tho animal had hauled inside OF
three days from town in Canada, dis
tance of about $50 miles. The ner'said
the dog could outstrip i'll u days journey
the best of horses.
An Iowa man has just shipped 300, 900
young pine trees from Black River Falls,
Wis, to Iowa to be transplanted- He
hos made shipment nearly every year
for the last thirty years, and says his ex,
perience is chat these trees are the most
thrifty and hardy and make the best wind
brakes of any treo that has yet been tried
on the Iowa prairies.
Some of the Buffalo sign painters have
hard times with &C. and ''etc." Ono
sign reads, Groceries, provisions and &c. F."
Another has it este. Still other forms are
.sand etc, - "&,soforth, 'et&c," and"and
ct cetera One man, who believes IN
giving his customers their choice fromao
large stock, hangs out the sign, "Dry
Goods, ct Cetera, Etc, &C."
The Philadelphia Crematory associa,
ton has decided ON plans for its crema-
tory building, which will be OF by 50 feet
i'll size, 81 feet in height, and consists of
crematory chamber and over that chapel.
The latter will be 80 feet square and AZ
feet high. Brick, Ohio sandstone and
iron will be the principal materials used.